title: Grammatical awareness in the spoken and written language of language-disabled children.
abstract: Experiments examined grammatical judgement, and error-identification deficits in relation to expressive language skills and to morphemic errors in writing. Language-disabled subjects did not differ from language-matched controls on judgement, revision, or error identification. Age-matched controls represented more morphemes in elicited writing than either of the other groups, which were equivalent. However, in spontaneous writing, language-disabled subjects made more frequent morphemic errors than age-matched controls, but language-matched subjects did not differ from either group. Proficiency relative to academic experience and oral language status and to remedial implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology, University of Toronto.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kantor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macnab
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014956:Writing